SAY IT WITH FLOWERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 153, 30 June 1934, Page 6 (Supplement)

SAY IT WITH FLOWERS.

The old Chinese proverb says: —"If you liave two loaves, sell one and buy a lily." There arc plenty of people who are rather ashamed of spending money on flowers, which fade all too soon, and feel that to have many cut flowers in the winter condemns them as terribly extravagant, even wicked.' Yet the joy the flower gives is something which cannot be reckoned in terms of pounds, shilling and pence. "Say it with flowers" is a very sound maxim. Sympathy in grief, congratulations on happiness, cheer for an invalid, are all expressed by flowers better than most words can garb our feelingß. And if we welcome these flowers as gifts, from friends bciiiii!iiu!ii!iiuiiiiii!iiiiiniiiiiiiiiiniiiniiiii!iiniiiin!iiiimiinii!i!iniiiiiiiiii!!iiiiiiiiiiiiniiniiiuimiimi

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